Her administration is also looking to ensure roadworks run more smoothly throughout the year and make other transport improvements, such as the Kingston station forecourt.

She is also determined to press ahead with plans to increase social housing stock in the borough, despite the controversial process for obtaining Greater London Authority funding.

However, under these guidelines, only the leaseholder of a social housing property, who is usually male, has the right to vote.

Cllr Green said: “We have problems with guidelines. The money’s more important.”

The Lib Dem group does not blame Mayor Sadiq Khan for this issue, saying it is an obscure piece of planning regulation from the 1960s which officials have probably overlooked.

The council has chosen Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd as the preferred bidder for the project and is now finalising a ballot to be held in the autumn of 2019 over whether the project for 830 flats goes ahead.

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